On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Michael Eschweiler
<Michael.Eschweiler@t-online.de> wrote:
> I compiled the wxWidgets with the -enable-unicode option. Therefore I followed
> your advice and controlled if the devel packages are installed.
> The postgresql- and gtk2-devels are installed but as I compiled the wxWidget
> from the tarball I think the sources of this package are not (and I didn't
> install the devel from the distribution because I suppose that there would be
> some considerable differences).
> As I don't know how to install sources from a tarball I tried to create a
> source.rpm in order to install it but then configure complained:
A simple 'make install' will install the right bits of wxWidgets. In
fact, if you're building your own anyway, you can just follow all the
pgAdmin build instructions and it should do everything you need - just
just in the 'rpm way'.
> error: Failed build dependencies: gtk+-2.0-devel is needed by
> wx-gtk2-unicode-2.8.7-0.i586
>
> although gtk2-devel is installed. Sorry, but I must confess that this is going
> beyond my installation-skills...
> > Of course an easier option would be to use Redhat or CentOS :-p
> For pgadmin I suppose this is right, but recently I tried Fedora 8 and for
> other purposes I found some inconveniences so I decided to stick to OSS...
> I never tried seriously other distributions because of lack of time.
> Michael
Yeah, I wasn't seriously suggesting you change OS just for pgAdmin :-)
Unfortunately though, Suse seems to be the one RPM based linux distro
where a) we don't have anyone building packages and b) things never
seem to go smoothly :-(
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